Politics
A Mormon, a fascist, and another Mormon walk into a bar in New Hampshire…
…and the first Mormon wins. Which everybody knew he would. The fascist comes in second and the second Mormon comes in third. There is an Abbot and Costello routine in there somewhere. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Romney will be the nominee and he will lose the general election to Obama [...]
Today’s dose of casual sexism
From Glenn Greenwald, famed advocate of human rights for men: …as soon as Scott Ritter began telling the truth about Iraqi WMDs, he was publicly smeared with allegations of sexual improprieties. As soon as Eliot Spitzer began posing a real threat to Wall Street criminals, a massive and strange federal investigation was launched over nothing [...]
Memories…light the corners of my mind
Misty watercolor memories….. Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards’ Statement on Abortion Ban in New High-Risk Insurance Pools “Based on the Obama administration’s statement, we are deeply disappointed that the administration has voluntarily and unnecessarily decided to impose limits on private funds used to purchase health insurance coverage for abortion care in the [...]
And now for our next trick, we’ll grant corporations the right to vote and habeas corpus
This is bad. This is really, really bad. Corporations are people now, and money is speech. Dear god. As Doug Kendall observes: Citizens United blows away any notion that conservative judges, who profess to be “originalists” and “umpires,” are in fact faithful to our Constitution’s text and history or bound by reasoned precedent. But of [...]
Ten million people could march on Washington dressed as Che Guevara, and the Democrats would interpret it to mean that Americans want the party to move right
A little over a year ago, Americans elected Barack Obama by a landslide. They elected him because they wanted an end to Republican government. They elected him because they wanted to see a genuinely progressive agenda enacted. True, they had absolutely no reason to expect that Obama would do those things, but still: that’s what [...]
Why right-wing populism works
(This started out as a paragraph in the working session thing I’m knocking together, but it got so big that I decided it needed its own post.) Why does right-wing populism work? Short answer: because left-wing populism is dead. Or, to put it another way, and more accurately: Republican cultural populism — which is all [...]
Martha Coakley for President
Quixote started it (I think). Pick it up. Run with it. Go! On your blog, in your comments, everywhere. That’s how memes start. Coakley’s got the courage and the convictions. She’s raising her head above the parapet, right now, when it matters. Just as she did last year when she endorsed Hillary Clinton. Just as [...]
Here we go again with the classism
Revenge of the Ghetto Hockey Mom is how Henry Rollins describes the Palin-Letterman contretemps. Granted, Rollins is a particularly odious misogynist who is too dumb to understand that threats to hate-fuck conservative women are perhaps not the most persuasive way to spread the liberal message. Nevertheless, his argument — if you can call it that [...]
National Fourth Amendment Defense Day
I had to disappear for a few days to do some reclusive things, but I’m back in time for the holiday. That’s today, National Fourth Amendment Defense Day. I don’t think there will be any half-price sales at Bed Bath & Beyond to mark the occasion, but you can contribute to the festivities by phoning [...]
A comment that tells you everything you need to know about the Obamabots
From a commenter at Tom Watson’s blog: Oh well who cares if no majority Caucasian country in the history of the western world has ever nominated a black man before. It’s no biggie, some dude’s wife is much more monumental. Just in case you’re wondering why women like me are ready to fight tooth and [...]
